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Assignment on ” 20th Century Major Movement in Modernist Literature.



NAME:GOHIL  BINKALBA NAREDRASHINH

COURSE:M.A ENGLISH

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BATCH:2016-2018

ENROLMENT NO-  2069108420170010

SUBMITTED TO – Dr. Dilip Barad 
SMT .S.B.GAEDI
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

MAHARAJA KRISHNAKUMARSINHJI BHAVNAGER UNIVERSITY


PARER NO- 9 The Modernist Literature.

TOPIC:” 20th Century Major Movement in Modernist Literature.
                                             


                                               

Introduction:
                      In the first half of the 20th century the main literary form was modernism . Modernism comprised several literary movements, including naturalism, symbolism, aestheticism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dada, Surrealism and Neuse Sachlichkeit .
                    Modernism began as a movement in the second half of the 20th century in France with  Baudelaire (poetry),  Flaubert (the novel), and in Norway with  Ibsen (drama), although some  19th century  German-language writers are considered as important precursors of modernism, for example  Georg Buchner and Heinrich Heine In the last decades of the 19th century German-language writers began to engage with international movements such as naturalism, symbolism and aestheticism. The first modernist movement originating in Germany was Expressionism, which began as a movement in art and literature in the first decade of the 20th century. However, according to Walter H. Sokel.
                   Avant grade first used for art, rather than military political context name the movement that was called the most extremely from the modernism surrealism.

Influence the modernist painters in specialist painting, demonstrated that human beings do not see objects but instead they see the light off itself when it was won the leading painters of this movement.


                       The impressionist influence painting and writing new capable of demanding unheard of never before., how and why did modernism encourage experiment in art form . A silent characteristic consciousness of modernism self consternation this self consciousness of tended to experiments with home and work it draws attention to the poses and material used in to the tendency of abstraction .


Let’s see 20th century major Movement: (Art Movement)
1)               Imagism
2)             Dadaism
3)             Expressionism
4)             Surrealism
5)              Naturalism
6)              Symbolism
7)               Aestheticism
8)             Futurism.

    Imagism:

                                                         
                          

                        Imagism   has been described as the most influential movement in English poetry since the activity of the Pre-Raphaelites. As a poetic style it gave Modernism its start in the early 20th century, and is considered to be the first organized Modernist  literary movement in the English language.


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The movement in the early 20th century Anglo American poetry, that favorite Precision of imaginary. and clear sharp language and way described and the most influential Movement in English poetry and in contrast to their contemporary poets the Georgian poets .
Futurism :
                                                               
                         Futurism is an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy,  in the early 20th century emphasize and glorified terms associated with contemporary concept of future including speed Technology, youth , and violence,  and objects such as the far airplane  and the industrial City.
                       The futurist practice in every medium of art including. Painting sculpture ceramics graphic design industry design film Fashion literature Museum architecture and even not astronomy. Keep figures of the movements.

Naturalism:
                                                             
                     A literary movement that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character. Leading writers in the movement include Émile Zola, Theodore Dreiser, and Stephen Crane.

Symbolism (1870s–1890s):

                          A group of French poets who reacted against realism with a poetry of suggestion based on private symbols, and experimented with new poetic forms such as free verse and the prose poem. The symbolists—Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, and Paul Verlaine are the most well known—were influenced by Charles Baudelaire. In turn, they had a seminal influence on the modernist poetry of the early 20th century.

Expressionism:

                                                          
                     Expressionism beginning about 1900 rise in Europe late, 19th early 20th as a response to George gorgeous complex. century and the in crashing mechanical and urbanization of society between 1910 to 1925 Paul Edward. pentad friend reach a German philosophy emphasize cultivating individual willpower and transcending conversation notion reasoning and morality.
                   Expressionist dramatist Georgia  friends world kind earnest dollar August trending reflect father of expressionism.
A modernist movement initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century the artists sort to express meaning or emotionally expressions rather than physical reality.
                  Music and fine arts haven’t always followed the same course in history. The early twentieth century is one of those rare points when their paths converged. During these troubled years, composers of Western art music turned to radical new ways of expressing melody, harmony, rhythm, and tone color, while artists began to emphasize the extreme expressive properties of pictorial form in order to explore subjective emotions and inner psychological truths.
                This convergence can be best observed in the simultaneous musical advances of Arnold Schoenberg and in the paintings of expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka in Vienna and of the first abstract painter Vassily Kandinsky in Munich. In this paper I would like to discuss the origins and development of this convergence in art and music by assessing both pictorial and musical examples.
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Kandinsky 
Paul Klee
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Surrealism:


                                                                        Surrealism menace  Beyond realism. THE ORIGIN OF THE WORD "SURREAL"

                  The word "surreal" was coined by the poet/art critic Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), and appeared for the first time in the program notes for ballet Parade (May 1917), a Ballets Russes production that enlisted the talents of Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie and Leonid Massine.
Apollinaire also describe his play The Breasts of Tiresias (June 1917) as "surreal."
                    However, Apollinaire died six years before André Breton published his "Manifesto of Surrealism" (1924), and therefore his use of the word surreal may not be exactly the same as Breton's.
                   Today, we associate the word "surreal" with strange juxtapositions or absurd combinations, like those experienced in dreams. This concept belongs to Breton's interpretation of the word..

                   Surrealism is a cultural movement that beginning the early 1920 and his best know for the visual art work and writing of the group members leader Andrew Britain was explicitly in his essential that surrealism were above Revolutionary movement .
                    Surrealism officially began with "The Manifesto of Surrealism," published in 1924. However, it grew out of 
                 Surrealism never died, it simply splintered into numerous directions and influenced new movements, with different names. Some artists still identify themselves as Surrealists and some founding Surrealist artists are still alive (see the list below).

                Surrealism is a 20th century Avant Grade Movement in art and literature. which ought to realize the creative potential of the unconscious mind for example bidirectional just opposition of images surrealism. is cultural movement that begin in the early 19th and he is best known for its visual art works and writings the aim was to resolve the dada activities during World War and the most important centre of the movement was Paris .

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Louis Aragon 
Andre Breton 
Rona crewel
 
Dadaism: 
                                                                   
                                                                 

                
                   Dada was a literary and artistic movement born in Europe at a time when the horror of World War I was being played out in what amounted to citizens' fronDadaism was an art movement of the European event guard in the early 20th century that are in Zurich seizer  land begin in 1916 at cabaret Voltaire.  Dada was not a movement, its artists not artists, and its art not art. That sounds easy enough, but there is a bit more to the story of Dadaism than this simplistic explanation.

         THE BEGINNING OF DADA

                Due to the war, a number of artists, writers, and intellectuals—notably of French and German nationality—found themselves congregating in the refuge that Zurich (in neutral Switzerland) offered.
Far from merely feeling relief at their respective escapes, this bunch was angry that modern European society would allow the war to have happened. They were so angry, in fact, that they undertook the time-honored artistic tradition of protesting.
Banding together in a loosely-knit group, these writers and artists used any public forum they could find to challenge nationalism, rationalism, materialism and any other -ism which they felt had contributed to a senseless war. In other words, the Dadaists were fed up. If society is going in this direction, they said, we'll have no part of it or its traditions. Including... no, wait!... especially artistic traditions. We, who are non-artists, will create non-art since art (and everything else in the world) has no meaning, anyway.

THE IDEALS OF DADAISM

About the only thing these non-artists all had in common were their ideals. They even had a hard time agreeing on a name for their project.
"Dada"—which some say means "hobby horse" in French and others feel is just baby talk—was the catch-phrase that made the least amount of sense, so "Dada" it was.
Using an early form of Shock Art, the Dadaists thrust mild obscenities, scatological humor, visual puns and everyday objects (renamed as "art") into the public eye.
performed the most notable outrages by painting a mustache on a copy of the Mona Lisa (and scribbling an obscenity beneath) and proudly displaying his sculpture entitled Fountain (which was actually a urinal, sans plumbing, to which he added a fake signature).
The public, of course, was revulsed—which the Dadaists found wildly encouraging. Enthusiasm being contagious, the (non)movement spread from Zurich to other parts of Europe and New York City. And just as mainstream artists were giving it serious consideration, in the early 1920s, Dada (true to form) dissolved itself.
In an interesting twist, this art of protest—based on a serious underlying principle—is delightful. The nonsense factor rings true. Dada art is whimsical, colorful, wittily sarcastic and, at times, downright silly. If one wasn't aware that there was, indeed, a rationale behind Dadaism, it would be fun to speculate as to just what these gentlemen were "on" when they created these pieces.

Spreading to Germany but the height of New York Dada was the year before in 19 15 Dadaism was also a reaction to the devastation of wordwar-1.

Aestheticism:

                                                                                                                        
          Atheist racism is a late 19th movement also called aesthetic movement . Is an intellectual and art movements suppose the emphasize of aesthetic value more than social political themes for literature fine arts music and other arts it is another art its the tree with Santa on believe that art exist for arts that is for the safe it's the beauty alone and that it doesn't say any purpose political social all detective.
Writer for asceticism.
Aestheticism writers:
first is Oscar Wilde 
second Walter Peter.
Conclusion:
          A literary and artistic movement that provided a radical breaks with traditional modes of Western art, thought, religion, social conventions, and morality. Major themes of this period include the attack on notions of hierarchy; experimentation in new forms of narrative, such as stream of consciousness; doubt about the existence of knowable, objective reality; attention to alternative viewpoints and modes of thinking; and self-referentiality as a means of drawing attention to the relationships between artist and audience, and form and content. • High modernism (1920s): Generally considered the golden age of modernist literature.

Reference:
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thoughtco. 22 20 2017. 22 10 2017 <https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-dada-182380>.

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Assignment on ” Morning Become Electra” as a Greek tragedy.

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NAME:GOHIL  BINKALBA NAREDRASHINH

COURSE:M.A ENGLISH

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ENROLMENT NO-  2069108420170010

SUBMITTED TO – Dr. Dilip Barad
SMT .S.B.GAEDI
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

MAHARAJA KRISHNAKUMARSINHJI BHAVNAGER UNIVERSITY


PARER NO-10  The American literature.

TOPIC:” Morning Become Electra” as a Greek  tragedy.                             
                                              
                                             
                                                                              

Introduction:

                        " Mourning Becomes Electra" is considered O'Neill's most ambitious work. In the play, he adapts the Greek tragic myth Oresteia to nineteenth-century New England. Generally, critics praised the play as one of O'Neill's best. Even though performances ran almost six hours long, audiences seemed to agree; it ran for 150 performances.

                       Like Oresteia,O'Neill's play features themes of fate, revenge, hubris, adultery, and honor.

                        "Mourning Becomes Electra" based on the use of the 'Greek Myths'. Set in a modern milieu, the plot, the characterization, and the story-line are all reflective of the ancient traditions.
                       'Mourning becomes Electra' is a tale of ancient hatreds, illegitimacy, revenge, family secrets and murder.

 As per the title :” Mourning Becomes Electra”  Mourning means :The 'expression' of 'sorrow' for someone’s'death',
                                                                     Grief ,
                                                                      lament,
                                                                      lamentationBlack clothes worn as an expression of sorrow when someone dies.

                      “Electra” means : Sparkling , the fairy sun “Becomes “ in the sense of “befits” Electra to mourn- it is her fate Mourning (Black) (sorrow) is becoming to her, it is the only color that becomes her destiny.

                        As a Greek tragedy made modern, the play features murder, adultery, incestuous love and revenge, and even a group of townspeople who function as a kind of Greek chorus.
  

                     The characterization, the story line, the plot are all reflective of the ancient traditions. 

                 If  compare Greek and American tragedies, there are several similarities and difference in characters and situations.

How retelling story from Greek to American .

Let’s see,

                                                                                  



Greek

American
Oresteia
Mourning Becomes Electra
Aeschylus
Eugene O’Neill
1 Agamemnon
1 Home Coming
2 The Libation Bearers
2 The Hunted
3 The Eumenides
3 The Haunted
Agamemnon
Ezra Pound
Clytemnestra
Christine
Orestes
Orin
Electra
Lavinia
Adam Brant
Aegisthus
Trojan War
American Civil War 

                                                                                 


 Explanation of Greek myth’s:
                        Atreus and Thyestes both  brothers after  founding the thyestes is has an affair with his wife, is aerope he decided to take revenge. he invited thyestes for a dinner, after having dinner after having dinner atreus  informed thyestes that he has killed and cooked his two sons. and serve to him.
                      Thyestes becomes angry and cost atreus. He wanted to take revenge for his sons murders, as it was awaken he made a relationship with his own daughter pelopia. and they have son aegisthus for  getting Revenge aegisthus murder atreus. 
                    Atreus two sons menelaus  and agamemmon and menelaus has married to  most beautiful lady helen and  agamemmon to clytemnestra. Helen's sisters, when helen was carried away by Prince of troy parish by agamemnon promise menelaus to fight for this, and this war non as a trojan war.
                 Agamemnon  has three children daughters iphiginia and electra and one son orestes. Agamemnan sacrifice iphiginia to get feribal wind while selling for wind  clytemnestra became angry for this in absence of agamemmna  clytemnestra and aegisthus  started love affair.  When   agamememnon  came back from war.
                Revenge motifs clytemnestra and aegisthus murder him and got the thrown. Orestes murder aegisthus and his mother clytemnestra  after orestes horrifia fury with help of goddess Athena this course was ended from the house of family of atreus . it is very clear to state  that  the mythical story is full of blood shed,  when she end friludility most of member of family is kill by own blood relative.

                 Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra is a modern adaptation of Aeschylus’ Oresteia trilogy, transposed from Agamemnon’s return to Argos from the Trojan War to Ezra Mannon’s return to the Mannon House in a New England town after the American Civil War. Trojan War as the background of Aeschylus’ play lends a sense of doom and pre-destination to it.
                 O’ Neill chooses the American Civil War as the historical background for his adaptation, because the war possesses “sufficient mask for time and space and New England as the place of action, because of its “Puritan conviction of man born to sin and punishment”.
               O’ Neill understands his exercises in tragedy as an attempt to find a modern analogue to the ancient mode of experience. Accordingly, the American Civil War springs from O’Neill’s attempt to negotiate the chasm between ancient and modern.
             But war in Mourning Becomes Electra emerges as a thematic essence. The play starts at a moment when the external war is over. But Civil War contributes to the diegesis of the play. External war contributes to dramatic action. External war is given here internal, esoteric dimension. As the backdrop of this play First Civil War of 1865 is primarily a political war, but simultaneously it is also a cultural war waged by the people living within the taboos of Puritan society. They were tired, so they tried to establish an antithetical place to Puritanism. Patriarchy is a bifurcation of Puritanism. So, there is also protest against it by women. This is integrated with Civil War therefore war is not only without but also within.
               In this poignant tragedy O’ Neill attempts to interpret the old Greek story of Oresteia in Freudian terms, and presents it with the theatrical devices and styles of 20th century expressionism.
               Apart from the Civil War he presents in this play two other levels of war: war between different individuals, that is, intra-individual war; and war within different disparate incongruous antithetical elements inside human psyche. One kind of war is not separate from other. Individuals in the play are always engaged in war with each other. Being driven by the urge to take revenge on the Mannon family, Adam Brant in association with Christine murders Ezra Mannon.
               Orin kills Brant to possess his mother and to take revenge of his father’s death. Lavinia drives Christine and Orin to suicide in order to take revenge of her father’s death. Lavinia herself is so much in love for Brant that she detects mother’s love affair. This is a reversal of the normal mother detecting on her daughter.
            Therefore, mother-daughter rivalry intensifies. Here, women always fight to get possession of the men, which is a reversal of the earlier tragedies, and daughter wins all the battles.
                 
              "morning Become Electra" is a dark tragedy featuring adultery, incest, murder, suicide, revenge, madness. As the play opens, Ezra Mannon returns from the war, only to be poisoned by his adulterous wife, Christine. His daughter Lavinia and son Orin avenge their father's death by killing their mother's lover. The mother, Christine, commits suicide. Orin later also takes his own life. Lavinia shuts herself up in the house, with the memories of her dead relatives to haunt her. 

Plot is divided in to a three part:
                                                        

                           "Homecoming:"


                   It is late spring afternoon in front of the Mannon house. The master of the house, Brigadier-General Ezra Mannon, is soon to return from war.
                 The starting part of the spring season, when the master of house Ezra Mannon is coming from war. Another side Lavinia has just returned from a trip. She suddenly knows about affair of Captain Brant and her mother, Christine. Other side her friend Peter is proposing her for marriage again.
               In that part , Lavinia appears her mother for adultery and reveals that she followed her mother to New York and saw her kissing to Adam Brant. At that time her mother says that she always loves her son, Orin and Lavinia has always schemed to steal her place. Later Christine proposes to Adam Brant that they will give poison to Ezra and attribute his death to his heart trouble.
                

                     " The Hunted"


                    Peter, Lavinia, and Orin arrive at the house. Orin disappointedly complains of Christine's absence. He jealously asks Lavinia about what she wrote him regarding Brant. Lavinia warns him against believing Christine's lies. Second play is divided into five parts.
In that part Peter, Lavinia and Orin are talking about Christine’s lies. Orin disappointedly complains of his mother’s absence. Lavinia warns him and at that time Christine comes and both mother and son embrace jubilantly.
                    In that part Orin asks his mother about Brant and then he recounts his wonderful dreams about South Sea Islands.
Here, Lavinia convinces Orin about their mother’s treachery and Orin finally agrees to watch the behavior of Christine and Brant.
After Ezra’s funeral, Lavinia and Orin follow their mother, Christine who goes to meet Brant in East Boston. Orin and Lavinia listen whole conversation of them. Finally in a hurry Orin shoots Brant and make it seem that Brant has been robbed.
                    Orin and Lavinia come and they revealing that they killed Brant , Christine collapses. After that Christine leaves them and suddenly a shot is heard from Ezra’s study.

                              " The Haunted"

                      A year later, Lavinia and Orin return from their trip East. Lavinia's body has lost its military stiffness and she resembles her mother perfectly. Orin has grown dreadfully thin and bears the statue-like attitude of his father. The Haunted is divided in four parts but Act I is divided in two scenes.One year later, Orin and lavinia return from their East trip. Lavinia resembles her mother perfectly and Orin has grown like his father.

                       Lavinia looks like Christine and Peter thinks that it is ghost of Christine. Lavinia approaches him eagerly. Orin jealously mocks her warmth towards Peter. Orin is working at a manuscript in a great work, the Mannon study, he has written a history of the family crimes as a last Mannon.Hazel and peter arrives at Orin’s home and as Orin sees hazel alone, he gives her an envelope and warning her to keep it secret from Lavinia.

              She should open it if :
1 Something happens to him or
2 Lavinia tries to marry PeterFinally Orin commits suicide in room.

                 At the last part of the play after three days Lavinia appears dressed in deep mourning. Finally hazel knows that Lavinia does not marry with Peter. Bitterness in his voice, Lavinia desperately flings herself into his arms crying :“ Take me , Adam!!! “Now she is alone , no Mannon is left there to punish her. She must leave happiness and lives alone in the old house with the ghosts of her ancestors. She throws out the flowers and enters in the dark house alone and shuts the door.

Conclusion:


                                              Eugene O'Neill's late plays usually deal with the revelation of grim, intimate secrets that unfold in the stifling atmosphere of isolated barrooms and family living rooms. Between Mourning Becomes Electra, written in 1931 and considered by the author as a turning point in his career, and A Moon for the Misbegotten, his final play, the characters become more and more isolated in cramped, deserted places.


                                              In this respect, the last period of O'Neill's career illustrates the shift from the religious and social function of Greek tragedy to the emphasis on individual fate that characterizes modern drama.


                   Finally,” Revenge never Sleep, It Goes on “
                                                                         Thomas Kyd’s
it can be said that, whereas in classical tragedy war brings a restoration of order and social propriety with the purging of the evil, in a modern tragedy like Mourning Becomes Electra war does not come with any fruitful result of justification.

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